MODERNIZING FARM MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

The farm management software will become mainstream soon in reality. The use of blockchain technology in the agri-food supply chain allows stakeholders and consumers access to reliable information.

Most of the Farm Management Systems focus on specific tasks and use their own specifications to implement the functionality provided. Agriculture is rapidly becoming a very data intensive industry where farmers need to collect and evaluate a huge amount of information from a diverse number of devices (e.g., sensors, farming machinery, meteorological sensors, etc.) in order to become more efficient in production and communicating appropriate information.

Blockchain can help farmers in controlling weather crisis - IoT sensors generating data or Farmers storing data, Distribution of grown crops to the food processing companies, Supply of Processed Food to Wholesalers and Retailers, Consumers can back trace the supply chain. Smart farming allows sensors to generate crucial information related to the crops sown in the fields. The data captured either by using IoT sensors or manually by farmers is saved in the distributed storage platform, i.e IPFS with addresses stored in the blockchain.

Blockchain promises a single source of truth about the condition of the farm, inventory as well as contracts from planting to harvesting to storing. Blockchain is one such technology which can bring in immense benefits to the sector and make agriculture sustainable.